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News Now We Know What Happened: Poway’s Jews Defied Their Attacker, And He Fled
Saturday was the last day of Passover — one of the four times during the yearly cycle of holidays that Jews recite Yizkor, the prayer for the dead and for martyrs. There were several dozen people in attendance for the service at the Chabad of Poway, the only Orthodox synagogue in northern suburbs of San…
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Fast Forward ‘Terror Will Not Win’: Rabbi Shot In Poway Synagogue Attack Looks To Future
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein has emerged from surgery shaken but hopeful for the future. Goldstein is the rabbi of the Chabad center in Poway where a gunman injured three and killed one woman, Lori Gilbert-Kaye. After Goldstein was shot in the hand, Gilbert-Kaye put herself between him and the gunman, and was immediately shot. She succumbed…
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Fast Forward Poway Synagogue Shooting Injured Two From Israeli Family From Sderot
Two of the three people injured in the Poway synagogue shooting are related. The young girl injured in the Poway synagogue shooting Saturday is the niece of the Israeli man who was injured shepherding several children to safety out of the sanctuary, according to the man’s brother. Almog Peretz, 34, managed to rush several chidren…
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Fast Forward Almog Peretz, Israeli Visiting Poway Synagogue, Saved Children’s Lives
This man is being called a hero. A friend says 34-year-old Almog Peretz saved children during today’s synagogue shooting in Poway. Hear the story tonight on @fox5sandiego pic.twitter.com/FKBIc9tcCL — Kristen Shanahan (@k_shan7) April 28, 2019 Almog Peretz, 34, had the training necessary to react quickly to a life-threatening emergency. He is Israeli, and is from…
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Fast Forward Poway Synagogue Shooting Victim Lori Gilbert-Kaye, ‘Woman of Valor,’ Saved Rabbi’s Life
(JTA) — Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was killed in the attack at a Chabad synagogue near San Diego, is credited with jumping in front of the synagogue’s rabbi to shield him from the gunman’s bullets. Gilbert-Kaye, 60, of San Diego, is survived by her husband and 22-year-old daughter. “Lori you were a jewel of our community…
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Fast Forward ‘Hired Goons,’ Intimidating Rottweiler Cited In Synagogue Lockout Lawsuit
Hired goons. A rottweiler. Sabotage. Coney Island. If you think this sounds like the plot from a classic crime epic about Brooklyn, you’d be right. But also these things relate to an ongoing lawsuit alleging one group’s “takeover” of a synagogue in the sleepy neighborhood of Seagate, at the far western edge of Coney Island….
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News A Thriving Synagogue Hired Its First Female Head Rabbi. Here’s Why That Matters.
Most job interviews are little more than sitting in a windowless room, answering questions from a manager with your resume in one hand and coffee in the other. For rabbis aiming for the pulpit, they’re a little different. This past winter, Temple Israel Center, a large Conservative synagogue in Westchester County, New York, had four…
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Fast Forward Majestic Abandoned Synagogue Reopened As Micro-Apartments By Lifestyle Brand
A lifestyle brand-cum-real-estate-developer in Chicago has finished its renovation of an abandoned synagogue into a building of micro-apartments, Forbes reported. The building is the former Agudas Achim North Shore Synagogue, home to an Orthodox congregation in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood for a century. In 2016, developers bought the abandoned building, which had been vacant for ten…
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